Tag: appalachia
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What’s With Arkansas (and Tennessee and Oklahoma)?
I was looking again at the maps of which way voters swung from 2004 to 2008, and noticed an odd anomaly: a hard line at Arkansas' northern, southern, and eastern borders (and to a lesser extent at Tennessee and Oklahoma borders). At Arkansas' eastern border, well, there's a big river there. But elsewhere, wouldn't you…
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The “Patriotic Pugnacity” Platform
The most striking anomaly in the recent election, to my eyes, was the strong Red countermovement among Appalachians and Okies: These areas swung even harder right this year, while almost every other part of the country went left (excepting McCain’s home state). Steve Sailer (he of the quite convincing “affordable family formation” thesis), explains this…